# Hiring Signals - Companies Hiring for Your Target Roles (`real_mccoy/hiring-signals`) Actor

Find which companies are hiring for the roles you sell to, from their Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and Recruitee job boards. One row per company with matching roles, new roles since last run, departments and salary. B2B buying signals.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/real_mccoy/hiring-signals.md
- **Developed by:** [Josh McCoy](https://apify.com/real_mccoy) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 company signals

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Hiring Signals — Companies Hiring for Your Target Roles

A company that just opened three **data engineer** roles is building a data team, and it is about to buy data tools. One hiring a **controller** is about to buy finance software. Hiring is one of the strongest buying signals in B2B sales.

This Actor watches a list of companies' job boards and tells you **which ones are hiring for the roles you care about**, how many, and **what's new since your last run**. One row per company, ready for your CRM or outreach list.

Works with company boards on **Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and Recruitee**, read from their official public job feeds. No login, no proxies.

**$10 per 1,000 company signals** ($0.01 per company reported). Companies with no matching roles cost nothing.

### Who uses it

- **SDRs and account executives** prioritizing accounts that are hiring the team that buys their product
- **Agencies and recruiters** spotting companies scaling a function before the roles hit LinkedIn
- **Investors and analysts** tracking which portfolio companies are growing which teams
- **RevOps** feeding hiring signals into HubSpot, Salesforce or Clay via Make, n8n or Zapier

### Input

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "https://boards.greenhouse.io/stripe",
    "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir",
    "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp",
    "greenhouse:airbnb",
    "figma"
  ],
  "roleKeywords": ["data engineer", "analytics engineer", "data platform"],
  "locations": ["United States", "Remote"],
  "minMatchingRoles": 1,
  "onlyCompaniesWithNewRoles": false,
  "monitorName": "data-team-buyers"
}
```

### Output (one row per company)

```json
{
  "company": "Ramp",
  "ats": "Ashby",
  "signal": "Strong",
  "matchingRoles": 7,
  "newMatchingRoles": 2,
  "openJobsTotal": 142,
  "matchingShare": 0.049,
  "matchingTitles": ["Data Engineer", "Senior Data Engineer, Platform", "…"],
  "newTitles": ["Staff Data Engineer"],
  "topDepartments": [{"department": "Engineering", "roles": 7}],
  "topLocations": [{"location": "New York, NY (HQ)", "roles": 5}],
  "remoteRoles": 2,
  "newestPostedAt": "2026-10-21T14:02:11+00:00",
  "salaryMin": 180000,
  "salaryMax": 290600,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "jobLinks": ["https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/…"]
}
```

**Signal**: Strong = 5+ matching roles, Medium = 2–4, Weak = 1.

### Run it as a weekly alert

1. Add your target accounts and role keywords, give it a **Monitor name**, and **Save as a new task**.
2. Turn on **Only companies with new matching roles**. The first run records today's roles; later runs report only companies that posted new ones.
3. Add a **Schedule** (daily or weekly) and connect Slack, email, Google Sheets or your CRM.

Need every job instead of a per-company summary? Use the companion Actor **Company Jobs Scraper** by the same author.

### Notes

Reads only public job postings that companies publish for applicants. Not affiliated with Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters or Recruitee.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

One per line: careers page links (boards.greenhouse.io/stripe, jobs.lever.co/palantir, jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp, apply.workable.com/huggingface, careers.smartrecruiters.com/BoschGroup, bunq.recruitee.com), ats:slug, or a bare board name.

## `roleKeywords` (type: `array`):

The hires that signal a need for what you sell, e.g. data engineer, salesforce, security, account executive, controller. Empty = every open role.

## `excludeTitleKeywords` (type: `array`):

e.g. intern, recruiter.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

e.g. United States, London, Remote.

## `departments` (type: `array`):

e.g. Engineering, Finance, Sales.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

0 = any age.

## `minMatchingRoles` (type: `integer`):

Only report companies with at least this many matching open roles.

## `onlyCompaniesWithNewRoles` (type: `boolean`):

Report only companies that posted matching roles since the last run for this monitor. The first run records today's roles.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Separate memory per watch list, e.g. data-team-buyers.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many company boards to read in parallel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "https://boards.greenhouse.io/stripe",
    "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir",
    "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp",
    "https://apply.workable.com/huggingface"
  ],
  "roleKeywords": [
    "engineer"
  ],
  "postedWithinDays": 0,
  "minMatchingRoles": 1,
  "onlyCompaniesWithNewRoles": false,
  "monitorName": "default",
  "concurrency": 8
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "https://boards.greenhouse.io/stripe",
        "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir",
        "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp",
        "https://apply.workable.com/huggingface"
    ],
    "roleKeywords": [
        "engineer"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("real_mccoy/hiring-signals").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "companies": [
        "https://boards.greenhouse.io/stripe",
        "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir",
        "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp",
        "https://apply.workable.com/huggingface",
    ],
    "roleKeywords": ["engineer"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("real_mccoy/hiring-signals").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "https://boards.greenhouse.io/stripe",
    "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir",
    "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp",
    "https://apply.workable.com/huggingface"
  ],
  "roleKeywords": [
    "engineer"
  ]
}' |
apify call real_mccoy/hiring-signals --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,real_mccoy/hiring-signals"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ogQOs9LhEwiqbwaEG/builds/Qv8EFtpeDCHLPncif/openapi.json